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  • Gerhard Wander
    Gerhard Wander    Premium Member
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    NGN/IMS Operations Best Practices
    Dear all,

    I am interested in sharing ideas, concepts and best practices for operating systems & services in an NGN environment, in particular IMS and applications.

    In comparison to operating traditional stove-pipe style solutions, the NGN/IMS architecture provides a lot of new options to set up and run services differently.
    However, most of the talk is about features. But what are the concepts to implement and run services in an all-IP environment?
    I believe, we need to look at concepts in the IT space, probably those that are applicable for high-available and high-performance industry sectors, such as banking or trading.

    If you follow the discussion about NGN, I think it becomes obvious that transport and service stratums differentiate quite significantly, and so must the operations concepts.
    For the service operations end, I would expect that it turns into a Datacenter setup, taking advantage of virtualization and further automation capabilities in the datacenter.
    As services will be implemented in software only, it must be possible to set up standardized hardware and middleware and run the software services on top of that layer. This would mean in turn, that redundancy, scaling, etc could be automatically handled by the underlying middleware and virtualisation layer and thus taking away the need for specifically setting up services and hardware, as well as expanding capacity.

    Regarding supportactivities, traditional capabilities would also need to change as monitoring and incident investigation now required a very detailed insight into the software and configured flows between software. This is hardly available for any discrete monitoring method.

    I would be very interested in your views and experience in this field.

    Kind regards
    Gerhard Wander
    • 17 Mar 2007, 9:09 pm
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    Yang Shi
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    Re: NGN/IMS Operations Best Practices
    could you introduce some applications about IMS in T-mobile?
    in china , cmcc has test the IMS solution, such as PTX, and streaming service. But current there have been a lot of separately applications. what will the carriers do in the NGN time?
    • 27 Mar 2007, 12:14 pm
  • Gerhard Wander
    Gerhard Wander    Premium Member
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    Re^2: NGN/IMS Operations Best Practices
    Not sure if I have understood the question correctly.
    Building up experience in setting up and operating IMS is certainly on the agenda for most operators.
    As IMS based services promise to deliver services at lower cost and faster time to market the hope is to implement multimedia services in an NGN environemnt rather than setting upt today´s stove-piped solutions.

    However, I have not come across a real compelling approach to model and orchestrate services in a layered architecture, and operations strategies and solutions.
    I would expect to differentiate between transport stratum and application stratum, with OSS and operational processes covering both areas.
    While the transport stratum might use well established concepts, I expect the application stratum to see some more significant changes, such as high-performance and harmonised data center operations of layered components.
    This would allow to use concepts such as autonomuous computing, advanced virtualization capabilities, etc

    Does anyone have experince or ideas in this area?
    • 28 Mar 2007, 9:12 pm
  • Frank Pflugbeil
    Frank Pflugbeil    Premium Member
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    Re^3: NGN/IMS Operations Best Practices
    Hallo Herr Wander, beim Durchstöbern der Einträge bin ich zufällig auf ihren Eintrag gestoßen. Da ich relativ neu in dieser Gruppen als auch bei Xing bin, kommt daher die Antwort etwas spät.
    Ich finde ihre Anmerkung sehr interessant. Die Tecon Contis (Tecon Group) als Beratungsunternehmen für u.a. Mobile Operators hat den Schwerpunkt ihrer Beratungsleistungen genau auf diese Schnittstelle zwischen Tk und IT mit speziellen Fokus auf die Service-/ Applikations-Integration gelegt. Der SOA-Ansatz bzw. die SDP sind gerade im Bereich von IMS/ NGN nicht nur persönlich für mich, sondern auch in unserem Unternehmen insgesamt, sehr interessante Beratungsfelder.

    Ich würde mich freuen, wenn wir den Erfahrungsaustausch an dieser Stelle fortsetzen könnten. Of course in English, too... ;-)

    With regards
    Frank Pflugbeil
    • 25 Nov 2007, 3:30 pm